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Lorna Doone choose

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[UK] R.D. Blackmore Lorna Doone (1923) 31: And good cess to his soul, for craikin’ zo.
at bad cess to you! (excl.) under bad, adj.
[UK] R.D. Blackmore Lorna Doone (1923) 38: The Doones were of very high birth, as all we clods of Exmoor knew.
at clod, n.1
[UK] R.D. Blackmore Lorna Doone (1923) 32: A big boy clouted them on the head.
at clout, v.1
[UK] R.D. Blackmore Lorna Doone (1923) 19: The great blunderbuss [...] was chocked with a dollop of slough-cake.
at dollop, n.
[UK] R.D. Blackmore Lorna Doone (1923) 53: Gadzooks, Master Pooke [...] do you suppose that I know not then the way to carry firearms?
at gadzooks! (excl.) under gad, n.1
[UK] R.D. Blackmore Lorna Doone (1923) 311: He was going to bring the lumpers upon us.
at lumper, n.1
[UK] R.D. Blackmore Lorna Doone (1923) 34: Hold your noise!
at hold your noise! (excl.) under noise, n.1
[UK] R.D. Blackmore Lorna Doone (1923) 432: You should have the hot new milk, and the pope’s eye from the mutton.
at pope’s eye (n.) under pope, n.
[UK] R.D. Blackmore Lorna Doone (1923) 288: See-saw is the fashion of England always, and the Whigs will soon be the top-sawyers.
at top sawyer, n.
[UK] R.D. Blackmore Lorna Doone (1923) 287: They talked so much about Birminghams, and Tantivies, and Whigs, and Tories, and Protestant flails.
at tantivy, n.
[UK] R.D. Blackmore Lorna Doone (1923) 234: A bucket of taties mashed with lard and cabbage.
at tatie, n.
[UK] R.D. Blackmore Lorna Doone 115: Now, that answer, made without a thought, stood me for two thousand pounds.
at stand, v.2
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